Tom Wappel at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On April 26th, 2007. See this statement in context.

April 26th, 2007 / 12:20 p.m.

Liberal

Tom Wappel Liberal Scarborough Southwest, ON

Far be it from me to lead the witness.

Mr. Sotiriadis, I'm going to read you a quote from an article by Professor Geist:

While the USTR report and its supporters seek to paint Canada as a laggard on copyright, this rhetoric ignores the fact that Canada is compliant with its international obligations and that Canadian law is consistent with the laws in most countries around the world. For example, of the three highlighted issues (WIPO ratification, copyright extension and camcording), only three of 192 United Nations members — the U.S., Singapore and the Czech Republic — have completed all three reforms.

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